Commandant Danie Erasmus died on 7 May 1914.
He fought in the First Anglo-Boer War (1880) where he became a Commandant. During the South African War 1899-1900, as a General, he saw action at the first battle of the war – Talana, was involved in the Siege of Ladysmith, and later operated in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga).
He was a man with his own ideas and didn’t take kindly to criticism and as such, late in 1900 was demoted from the rank of General to Commandant. He was captured in the Eastern Transvaal in January 1902 and sent to St Helena.
He died in Pretoria on 7 May 1914, three months before the First World War broke out, thus avoiding having to take sides in the 1914 Rebellion.
